The band, who headline today’s Wolfe Island Music Festival, had just wrapped up touring their critically lauded, and last, album, 2008’s Kensington Heights.

"We did all of the touring for the album and it kind of became time to sort of sit down and get at it again if we were going to do that. There just wasn’t the initiative there, the spunk, whatever you want to call it. Priorities shift a bit as you age and stuff, so it was just that we weren’t ready to do anything at that point."

While Lambke himself was game to carry on, a consensus couldn’t be reached among the quintet.

"Even I had a sense that like, ‘Oh, this has reached some sort of end point and the next go around is going to require a lot of work and a lot of reinvention both artistically and interpersonally and all that stuff,’ " he recalled.

The band — Bry Webb, Will Kidman, Doug MacGregor, Dallas Wehrle and Lambke — went their separate ways in 2010. Lambke, for one, released solo albums under the moniker Baby Eagle, while Webb embarked on a solo career, MacGregor drummed for City and Colour, and so on.

"I think it’s been really good for all of us to go out and play music and develop in other ways," Lambke suggested.

"I noticed that right away when we got back together last year when we were jamming."

While the band finally reformed last year for a couple of dozen shows, offers came in prior to that, but they needed that extra year or two apart, Lambke said.

"When we got together last year, it just felt like the right time and we had such a blast that we added more shows than we had originally planned," he said.

One of those shows took place at Toronto’s iconic Massey Hall, where Lambke has always wanted to play ever since seeing Johnny Cash perform there years ago.

Back in 2014, when the quintet first returned to the stage, Lambke was unsure of the reception. Four years is a long time in rock ‘n’ roll years, he suggested.

"The fact that we were remembered, remembered at all, and that people were excited that we were playing shows again and wanted to hear those tunes still, and still remembered those tunes, and kept those tunes in their lives," he suggested.

"Knowing that, I don’t think became real to me until we played the shows."

And the chemistry of the collective was palpable, Lambke feels.

"When we’re all playing together, there can be a crazy amount of energy in the room that I’m very conscious of," he observed. "And when I’ve done rock stuff, even with other people, it’s not quite the same."

The path the band follows from here is unclear, Lambke said. While reuniting was invigorating, those obstacles that come along with being musicians in their late 30s still remain.

Lambke is still optimistic that a recording is in the offing at some point.

"We enjoy playing together and trying to figure out what that means," he said with a laugh. "The way we can do it now and stuff. It’s an ongoing process, you know?"